I'm way overdue for writing this post. So now that the SuperBowl is over, I will wrap up the Chicago Bears posts until next season. Anyone who pays attention to football knows that the Bears not only went to the playoffs but won the Wild Card round against their archrival, the Green Bay Packers in overtime.
Katness and I often text each other during Bears games, and for 3 quarters the messages can be summed up as "WTF?" followed by "how did they pull that off" when they win the 4th quarter. Same with that crazy wild card game.
In the divisional round, they also forced overtime. It really came down to one bad play that turned the momentum to the LA Rams, and our season ended.
Had they won against LA, how would they do against the Seattle Seahawks? No way of knowing. We were playing with House Money on Borrowed Time. This season seems to have been the Sam Darnold Renaissance story, so they might have held in but not won.
And that also might be evidence that the NFL isn't fixed or rigged, or whatever. I'm not saying they aren't in bed with online gambling (the muffed extra point in the Houston - Steelers game), but I've said it before: if the NFL were rigged, NY, LA, Dallas, Chicago, and DC would be in the playoffs every year.
So what's next? First, I have to get through 162 games of Cubs Baseball, of which I will only watch a fraction. Then I have to see if this season was a fluke or if the Bears build on what they have. Caleb Williams is a franchise QB. I'm not skilled enough to know if our offensive line is fine or could use one more better player. However, our defense, while showing flashes of brilliance, still needs some help.
So we wait until the Draft and Free Agency 1.0 and 2.0 are over.
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